Latest revision as of 21:52, 17 December 2023

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year THF!

Each year the THF staff actvivates the holiday events in addition to double experience and godly points we also have this little gem that gives you several chances at rare items, Lullu's Magical Distillers and Vial of Prismatic Dye.

Santa Claus

Begin your holiday festivities by visiting Santa Claus himself in The Hidden Forest. He has a task for you to deliver 10 presents around the world of The Hidden Forest. Upon completion of his task you are awarded one Pristine Ornament which are needed to access the Polar Bear King raid instance.

Stolen Presents!

Visit Santa's Lil Helper in forest to obtain her task to gather and return the stolen presents. You will need to visit the following zones in order to collect the presents.

• Butcherblock Mountains
• Steamfont Mountains
• West and East Commonlands
• Northern and Southern Deserts of Ro
• Greater and Lesser Faydark

Collect the presents from the thieves that have stolen them and combine them in Empty Presents Satchel and return it to Santa's Lil Helper in the forest. Upon completion of this task you are awarded 1 of each of the following the first time you complete it:

• Trinket of the Hraquis hunter
• Red Adventurer's Pouch
• Lillu's Magical Distillers
• Vial of Prismatic Dye
  • On each completion after you are awarded one Lillu's Magical Distiller and one Vial of Prismatic Dye.

Holiday Scavenger Hunt

Visit Polar Bear Prince, 4686.92, -3248.58, 93.49, in Everfrost to obtain the scavenger hunt task. You can complete this task once per day during the holiday event.
You will need to visit the following locations to collect the stolen presents. Puffda's post on Scavenger Hunt clue locations:

• Great Divide - -7743.47, -304.94, -837.29 - In river west of port in
• Wakening Lands - 499.54, -1072.20, -20.94 - Base of tree to port to PoG.
• Iceclad Ocean - -4498.69, 9185.66, 316.68 - Near EW Zone line
• Eastern Wastelands - -4052.99, 486.05, 147.57 - Just outside the zone to CC
• Everfrost Peaks - 1754.71, -6471.44, 58.24 - Just inside gates to permafront in room to right
• Great Divide - -1499.45, 1746.17, 181.39 - Inside middle cave to kodiaks
• Siren's Grotto - 42.37, -52.20, 4.86 - On step in area where you drop down
• Cobalt Scar - -911.47, 892.42, 299.45 - Drop down off ramp you port in on
• Iceclad Ocean - 5615.31, 978.05, 153.86 - Near Chaotic StormFeather spawn point
• Iceclad Ocean - 1677.15, 2929.50, 120.03 - Just a little west along the wall of ToFS where you zone out from ToFS

Raid Bosses

The Abominable Snowman

• Located in The Dreadlands in a cave on the south side of the zone.

• T2 Difficulty

Loot

The Misfit Toy Maker

In Everfrost south east of the LDON camp you will find The Misfit Toy Maker in his temple.

• T3-T4 Difficulty

This even consists of 7 waves.

• The Toy Maker will be in the middle of his temple surrounded by 10 Toy Dolls.
• Attack the first wave of Toy Dolls to begin the event.
• Upon each Toy Dolls death it will split into two Toy Parts which also must be dispatched.
  • Use Caution the next wave spawns upon the death of all of the Toy Dolls not the Toy Parts.
• Next Wave is 10 Toy Golems.
  • Some Golems Spawn Toy Soldiers which like toy parts have impact on triggering the next wave.
• Wave of 10 toy giants spawns upon the death of the last Toy Golem.
• Wave of ## Creepy Toys.
• Wave of 4 Toy Dragons.
• Upon the death of the final Toy Dragon The Misfit Toy Maker goes live.

He is a straight forward tank and spank battle from this point. Loot

The Winter Warlock

The Winter Warlock can be found on the east side of Everfrost at the entrance to Permafrost.

• T3-T4 Difficulty

Loot

Polar Bear King

Head over to Everfrost, by the Polar Bear Prince, he will give you the scavenger quest for ornaments.

There is a portal (4531.19,-3118.20,-94.35) which you hand in Pristine Ornaments to start the raid event.

The amount of Pristine Ornaments determines difficulty shown below.

• 1 Ornament = Tier 1 Difficulty
• 2 Ornament = Tier 3 Difficulty
• 3 Ornament = Tier 6 Difficulty
• 4 Ornament = Tier 8 Difficulty
• Each tier has a 24 hour lockout by guild once completed.

Your entire raid will be transported into the instance. Good luck!

The Fight

-You will need two casters that can spam Remove Greater Curse non-stop. Using only 1 seems to not have time to cast enough RGC's to finish the event (more on this later.)

-You will need a toon who's PRIORITY purpose is to watch for 3 emotes and click the gumdrop trees on either side of the king in the proper fashion.

-And you will need someone with an aggro spell (can be the person who originally tanked the king, as by the time you need to start kiting, the king goes invuln and drops out of combat for the remainder of the fight) to kite the mummies at the end of the event.

• NOTE: You CAN use the Shissar Empire Badge of Honor for the RGC clicks. It drops off any trash mob in SSra, and is almost as fast as a healer actually spamming the real spell.

The event starts by the tank engaging the king (rooted NPC) and spinning him so he's facing away from the raid (towards the wall that was originally behind him). Have the toon who has been delegated clicking duty already standing at the left gumdrop tree (left when looking at the king from the hallway you entered from) at the start of the fight. At about 89% he will emote that he glares to his left side, at that point, that left gumdrop tree will need to be clicked within at the most 1.5-2 seconds. If not, he will spawn two bears which can make tanking more difficult. After that power fades by properly clicking that tree, have that player run to the one on the right side. He will emote again about at 65%ish? (forget what %, just have that player looking very carefully), in which he will glare to his right. Again, click the tree. If the tree isn't clicked, the king's DPS will ramp up significantly. Again, have this toon run to the left tree, again, and prepare for the last emote, which will occur around 50% (I forget what occurs when this is not clicked, I think it may be another dps boost, or it may be more adds...). At this point, just full DPS burn the king. He will go completely invulnerable at 34%, so you may want to pull all DPS classes quite a ways away. Have your tank standing between your healers and the king, and have those healers spam RGC on the king non-stop. Every 3-4 or so casts, a mummy will spawn that will initially run to the closest PC, but use your tank to cast an AGGRO spell on it (they are invuln to damage, but aggro spells work great) and kite it around until the next one spawns. After the tank aggros the mummy, it moves quite slow (though they seem to move slightly faster the higher the tier event, or maybe thats just me.) You will need to cast RGC quite a deal of times, and you will get 5, maybe more mummies in that time period, that will need to be kited. But once enough RGCs are casted, the king is cured, depops, and you get your chest which you can /open for your phat lewtz.

Valdeholm

New for 2020 Valdeholm and Frostcrypt

• Find Voodek in the Forest
• NPC's:
  • Wraithguard Hunter Grethmar (Aug Turn-in)
  • Renegade Kryol (Icey Wand of Beltron Quest)
  • Sheval (Headhunter Quest)
  • Bleekin (Aug Info)

Frostcrypt

Open zone augment collection

Dark token of the Crypt(x3) + A Thick Potion = Heavy Ice Tear

Dark token of the Crypt(x3) + A Hateful Potion = Hateful Ice Tear

Dark token of the Crypt(x3) + A Celestial Potion = Celestial Ice Tear

Dark token of the Crypt(x3) + A Crystalized Potion = Crystal Ice Tear

Dark token of the Crypt(x3) + A Deadly Potion = Piercing Ice Tear

Dark token of the Crypt(x3) + A Fierce Potion = Giant Ice Tear

Dark token of the Crypt(x3) + A Powerful Potion = Powerful Ice Tear

Boss augment collection

Dark token of the Crypt(x3) + Dusty Gem= Dark Ice Gem

Dark token of the Crypt(x3) + A Strange Device = Dark Ice Enigma

Dark token of the Crypt(x3) + A Dirty Snowball = Dark Ice Snowball

Dark token of the Crypt(x3) + Odd Looking Fluid = Dark Ice Vial

Cut and Paste of Kitty's post

Formatting needs to be cleaned up. http://www.thehiddenforest.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=15761&p=90893&hilit=frostcrypt#p90893

Valdeholm

The Wand

• The first thing you will need to do is obtain Icy Wand of Beltron. This is a quested item in Valdeholm which will be the key to your success once you're inside Frostcrypt. You must speak to Voodek in The Hidden Forest to get to Valdehom. Once you're in the zone, there are several NPC at the zone in, Renegade Kryol is who you must talk to for the wand. He then wants you to collect a few items for him.

• 1 = Icy Cystal Shards
  • You must go into the pit below and kill Shade Scrying Crystals until you can loot one of these.
  • Loc = -513.64, -236.75,-495.62

• 2 = Silk Spinners Toxic Venom
  • Now you must go kill A Fat Lakeskater (Before you do that though, read my next step after these collections). If you run out of the pit and all the way East, he is through a building and down a tunnel.
  • Loc = -876.90, -822.10, -27.02

• 3 = Hardened Icy Rod
  • Time to kill Master Smith Goil. He is located in a building to the North.
  • Loc = 1697.67, 1051.50, 5.66

• 4 = Zerakt's Research Notes
  • The final kill is Royal Cryptguard Zerakt. He is located in the last building up North.
  • Loc = 3669.94, -1315.80, 417.85

• When you take all 4 items back to Renegade Kryol you will then obtain your Icy Wand of Beltron.

The Spider

This is just a step that will help you tremendously in killing A Fat Lakeskater. If you skip it, be prepared for all the death touches. Kill the lakeskaters in the pit under the zone in. Right next to where the Shade Scrying Crystals are. You will only need to loot x1 Lakeskater Web per character. Find Field Biologist Seekto. He is located in the pit in the back of the Frostcrypt entrance. Hand in your Lakeskater Web and he will hand you Strange Lakeskater Ornament. Cast this on yourself before battleing A Fat Lakeskater.

Frostcrypt

Now that you have your Icy Wand of Beltron, you are now ready to enter Frostcrypt! Get it ready because this place is rough with more than a couple of adds! :twisted:

The Maze Key AKA: Thoren's Key

- This key comes from Guard Commander Bowulf. He is located a couple rooms south of the Great Hall.

- This key does add to the key ring when you click the door.

Tomb Key AKA: Key of Beltron's Tomb

- Find and speak to Dreekin ( the key master ). He has the quest you need.

- This key has a lot of fragments to collect but they are pre-lootable.

- It unfortunately doesn't add to the key ring when clicking the tomb.

- The placeholder for these guys is an old spirit.

• 1 = First Key Fragment

- Spirit of Aethmir is located on the left side of the maze.

• 2 = Second Key Fragment

- Spirit of Haridok is located on the right side of the maze.

• 3 = Third Key Fragment

- Spirit of Kalmaer is located in the room off to the right of the zone in.

• 4 = Fourth Key Fragment

- Spirit of Thontik is located in the room off to the right in the West Wing if you entered through the portal.

• 5 = Fifth Key Fragment

- Spirit of Thurgant is located in the NE corner of the Great Hall.

• Once you have collected all the fragments take them back to Dreekin and he will give you Key of Beltron's Tomb.

Dreekin's Quick Escape

- This item is a must have before doing the main 3 named. It teleports you instantly to the portal room and let's you travel quickly to the spots they move to.

- Find the basement and kill the golems.

- You need a sparkling ice golem. a dull ice golem is it's place holder.

• On another side note : If you wish to do more than one of the instances, you will have to farm the keys/port click again as they do not cross over into the different tiers.

The Named

- The main 3 named are located down inside the tomb that is right in front of the zone in area. If you gathered all the keys and the quick port above, you are now ready for these guys.

- You only have a few seconds to grab them or they will respawn in their original spots.

- You may or may not want to clear their 2nd rooms first.

- These guys can drop 1/4 different pieces to turn in for augs and some other tier ranked tradeable gear.

- A Strange Device, A Dirty Snowball, A Dusty Gem, Odd Looking Fluid

• 1 = Odeen the Cursed & Clawhammer

- When you head down into the tomb, take a right. Odeen and Clawhammer will be there waiting.

- Make sure to kill Clawhammer first as you will need to quickly port after killing Odeen.

- Once he's dead and you port, head straight for the basement. He is there waiting.

• 2 = Huldaan the Cursed and 2 adds

- When you head back down into the tomb, take a left. Huldaan and his 2 adds will be there waiting.

- Same as before, kills the adds first.

- Once he's dead and you port, head straight to the great hall. He is there waiting.

• 3 = Master Kresgord and 2 adds

- When you head back down into the tomb, go straight. Master Kresgord and his 2 adds will be waiting.

- Same as before, kill the adds first.

- Once he's dead and you port, head straight to the West Wing. He is just in that room below the ledge. There are a bit more adds and another named in this room though so you may want to clear as I mentioned earlier.

The Augs

- I hope you've been looting this whole time. Those potions and tokens make some great augs!

- Augs are tradeable.

- You'll need one of whatever main piece and x3 Dark Token of the Crypt per turn in.

- Turn ins are in Valdeholm zone in area.

The Big 4

- The pieces you looted off the main 3 named.

- Find Bleekin at the Valdeholm zone in.

- Give him your:

A Strange Device and x3 Dark Token of the Crypt = Dark Ice Enigma

A Dirty Snowball and x3 Dark Token of the Crypt = Dark Ice Snowball

Odd Looking Fluid and x3 Dark Token of the Crypt = Dark Ice Vial

A Dusty Gem and x3 Dark Token of the Crypt = Dark Ice Gem

The Potion Augs

- The pieces you looted off the trash.

- Find Wraithguard Hunter Grethmar at the Valdeholm zone in.

- Give him your:

A Crystalized Potion and x3 Dark Token of the Crypt = Crystal Ice Tear

A Powerful Potion and x3 Dark Token of the Crypt = Powerful Ice Tear

A Fierce Potion and x3 Dark Token of the Crypt = Giant Ice Tear

A Celestial Potion and x3 Dark Token of the Crypt = Celestial Ice Tear

A Thick Potion and x3 Dark Token of the Crypt = Heavy Ice Tear

A Hateful Potion and x3 Dark Token of the Crypt = Hateful Ice Tear

A Deadly Potion and x3 Dark Token of the Crypt = Piercing Ice Tear

I hope this guide was helpful and everyone enjoyed their Holidays <3